Philip Morris Pakistan's CSR awards for education and health.

KARACHI -- Philip Morris (Pakistan) Limited (PMPKL), an affiliate of Philip Morris International (PMI), has won the annual Corporate Social Responsibility award for the fourth consecutive year, being recognized under 'Community Development and Services' for their Summer Schools Program, and 'Women Welfare, Empowerment and Development' for their Mobile Health Clinics Program, at the 11th International CSR Summit 2019, organized by the 'National Forum for Environment and Health' (NFEH). The Summer Schools Program and Mobile Health Clinics Program, were both carried out during 2018 with major presence in tobacco growing areas, with PMPKL farmers' footprint. Summer Schools is a program to eliminate child labor from tobacco farms during peak crop season, while Mobile Health clinics is a unique program providing standard health services to under-privileged women and other community members.

The prestigious awards recognize PMPKL's consistent efforts to make a positive impact on the communities it operates in, through its community-development endeavours and social-uplift initiatives. The awards were distributed...